A Life of the Great Lord Fairfax, Commander-in-chief of the Army of the Parliament of England

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Macmillan and Company, 1870 - Great Britain - 480 pages
This work details the life of Thomas Fairfax, an English nobleman, peer, politician, general, and Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War, notably the crucial Battle of Naseby.

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Page 386 - Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Page 360 - O yet a nobler task awaits thy hand (For what can war, but endless war still breed?) Till truth and right from violence be freed, And public faith clear'd from the shameful brand Of public fraud. In vain doth valour bleed, While avarice and rapine share the land.
Page 124 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 188 - I am far from reflecting on any. I know the worth of those Commanders, Members of both Houses, who are yet in power: but if I may speak my conscience without reflection upon any, I do conceive if the Army be not put into another method...
Page 53 - The great God, who is the searcher of my heart, knows with what reluctance I go upon this service, and with what perfect hatred I look upon a war without an enemy.
Page 189 - I know they can rarely be avoided in military affairs : therefore, waiving a strict inquiry into the causes of these things, let us apply ourselves to the remedy which is most necessary ; and I hope we have such true English hearts, and zealous affections towards the general w:eal of our mother-country, as no members of either House will scruple to deny themselves and their own private interests for the public good, nor account it to be a dishonour done to them, whatever the parliament shall resolve...
Page 53 - Certainly my affections to you are so unchangeable, that hostility itself cannot violate my friendship to your person ; but I must be true to the cause wherein I serve. The old limitation, usque ad aras, holds still ; and, where my conscience is interested, all other obligations are swallowed up.
Page 396 - As if he had been of his enemies' side ; Or one of them could do, that were undone. He neither wealth nor places sought ; For others, not himself, he fought. He was content to know (For he had found it so) That when he pleased to conquer he was able, And left the spoil and plunder to the rabble.
Page 168 - War began. It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords.
Page 396 - Both sexes' virtues were in him combined : He had the fierceness of the manliest mind, And all the meekness too of womankind. He never knew what Envy was, or Hate. His soul was filled with Worth and Honesty; And with another thing, quite out of date, Called Modesty.

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